“They took a great person’s life,” her sister, Andrell Bostic, 28, said as tears welled in her eyes. “She’s all we had. It’s just not real.” 

The correctional officer died at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Friends, family and co-workers lined up outside the hospital as her body, wrapped in a white blanket, was wheeled to an ambulance. She was taken to the county medical examiner’s office. 

“She was a great person — a very loving person,” said her husband, James Jones. They were married for seven years, but he had known her for 25 years.

Bostic-Jones worked an overnight shift because wanted to have her days free for her young daughter.

Her husband said she wanted to make sure she continued working to keep her family together, especially since her mother died from cancer three years ago. “She was all about family time,” he said, adding that she loved being with her 6-year-old daughter.

Bostic-Jones also loved sports.

“She was swimming every day,” he said. “She loved biking, motorcycles and sports.”

She was even looking forward to watching the Summer Olympics at their home in Plainfield.